Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As our new Mechanical Construction Manager, you’ll lead Health, Safety, Environmental and Sustainability responsibilities across Water and Water Recycling non‑infrastructure and infrastructure projects. Acting as Principal Contractor under CDM 2015, you’ll ensure full compliance across all construction activities. Driving a culture of zero accidents, zero defects and delivering key project milestones.
You’ll manage site construction teams to deliver projects safely, on time and within budget. This includes facilitating construction kick‑off meetings, running health checks and overseeing tier 2 supplier performance across Safety, Time and Quality. You’ll approve robust RAMS, Constructability Reviews, Project Rehearsals and Fit for Assembly sign‑off. Championing waste reduction, lower embodied carbon and continuous innovation in mechanical delivery.
Working closely with the Lead Construction Manager, you’ll support resource planning across labour, plant and materials. You’ll ensure timely contractual and commercial notices and create a safe environment where teams feel confident to raise concerns, helping maintain our industry‑leading standards.
What you'll bring
You’ll have proven experience of managing operational resources in a fast-paced Non-Infrastructure and infrastructure environment to compliment your HNC/Degree in Civil or Construction Management. Dealing with large structures in the Water industry is essential.
Having attended a NEBOSH Training Scheme, you’ll hold a CSCS Card (Black minimum). Ensuring you provide the highest levels of safety management to our teams, customers and environment.
Able to inspire and lead a team. You’ll encourage and support groups and people to achieve critical tasks and outcomes. Adopt a can-do attitude and willingness to be hands on if required to achieve the deliverables. You’ll be able to operate at all levels to suit need and the situation with the ability to manage conflicting demands.
You’ll demonstrate excellent communication skills and will be performance driven, with proven experience of managing multiple stakeholder groups both internal and external to the organisation.
If you are looking for the next step in your career whilst having an impact on our site performance, please apply today!
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Private health care – family cover
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Discretionary bonus scheme
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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